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VPR Score: 8.4
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes.
The following security bug was fixed :
CVE-2020-14386: Fixed a potential local privilege escalation via memory corruption (bsc#1176069).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-WE-15-SP2-2020-2577=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Live Patching 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Live-Patching-15-SP2-2020-2577=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP2-2020-2577=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP2-2020-2577=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-2577=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HA-15-SP2-2020-2577=1